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Problems with installing Back|Track

I have twice attempted to install BT4 on my hard drive so I can dual boot with Windows 7,

After booting to the Live CD and clicking the Install.sh, I have used the manual partition option. I partitioned my drive in two partitions with my Windows installation being the 250GB partition and the Back|Track being 200GB.

All goes well until I try to install on the newly created partition and I get an error that says "No root file system found" and it won't let me continue unless I select my Windows partition, at which point it formats the entire drive.

I have done this twice and I get the same results. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and input.

Re: Problems with installing Back|Track

This is essentially covered in many of the installation tutorials of BT...anyway you have to select to use the partition as a "root file system".

When in manual mode select the partition, chose whatever filesystem you wish to use and whether or not to format it.
Then under the box chose "/".

I appreciate your input, however, it hasn't helped me in trying to install. For reference, see the image below. I chose to format it as NTFS and then FAT32, as well as using it as a Primary or a Logical partition. I also chose the mount point as dos and Windows and nothing I've done has helped.

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Re: Problems with installing Back|Track

I don't know if this will help or not but this is what I get when I follow the instructions found in the How-To.

As you can see, my options aren't anything like what is shown on the site.

The following two screenshots are what I see when I proceed with MANUAL mode.

After partitioning, it still tells me "No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu".

I'm beginning to wonder if I'll have to resort to installing on an external or USB drive. I've tried several different ways and each time, I've had to re-image my laptop because even after partitioning and wiping the drive, it still gives me the "no root file system" error.